Rajat Rohatgi

14.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
90 papers, 10.5k citations indexed

About

Rajat Rohatgi is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rajat Rohatgi has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 10.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 71 papers in Molecular Biology, 27 papers in Genetics and 14 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Rajat Rohatgi's work include Hedgehog Signaling Pathway Studies (43 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (26 papers) and Genetic and Kidney Cyst Diseases (17 papers). Rajat Rohatgi is often cited by papers focused on Hedgehog Signaling Pathway Studies (43 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (26 papers) and Genetic and Kidney Cyst Diseases (17 papers). Rajat Rohatgi collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Singapore. Rajat Rohatgi's co-authors include Marc W. Kirschner, Matthew P. Scott, Ljiljana Milenković, Hsin‐Yi Henry Ho, Le Ma, Christian Siebold, Tadaomi Takenawa, Hiroaki Miki, Tomas Kirchhausen and Hermann Broder Schmidt and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Rajat Rohatgi

88 papers receiving 10.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Patched1 Regulates Hedgehog Signaling at the Primary Cilium

2007 1.1k citations Rajat Rohatgi et al. Science profile →
The Interaction between N-WASP and the Arp2/3 Complex Links Cdc42-Dependent Signals to Actin Assembly

1999 1.1k citations Rajat Rohatgi et al. Cell profile →
Mechanism of regulation of WAVE1-induced actin nucleation by Rac1 and Nck

2002 659 citations Rajat Rohatgi et al. Nature profile →
Mechanism of N-Wasp Activation by Cdc42 and Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-Bisphosphate

2000 512 citations Rajat Rohatgi et al. profile →
TDP-43 α-helical structure tunes liquid–liquid phase separation and function

2020 254 citations Alexander E. Conicella, Gregory L. Dignon et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rajat Rohatgi United States	46	7.7k	3.1k	3.0k	846	669	90	10.5k
Peter W. Gunning Australia	61	9.4k 1.2×	4.5k 1.5×	1.8k 0.6×	909 1.1×	1.1k 1.6×	240	15.0k
Keith R. Johnson United States	56	9.3k 1.2×	2.8k 0.9×	1.3k 0.4×	906 1.1×	2.1k 3.1×	139	12.6k
H. Joseph Yost United States	53	7.9k 1.0×	2.6k 0.9×	2.3k 0.8×	289 0.3×	328 0.5×	130	10.4k
Arthur D. Lander United States	58	6.3k 0.8×	4.0k 1.3×	975 0.3×	1.5k 1.7×	932 1.4×	132	10.0k
Markus Affolter Switzerland	67	11.0k 1.4×	3.8k 1.3×	1.9k 0.6×	394 0.5×	640 1.0×	186	14.0k
Mark Peifer United States	67	12.2k 1.6×	5.5k 1.8×	1.5k 0.5×	421 0.5×	800 1.2×	168	15.0k
Johann Bauer Austria	51	3.0k 0.4×	2.5k 0.8×	1.1k 0.4×	369 0.4×	507 0.8×	290	8.4k
Giorgio Scita Italy	57	5.3k 0.7×	4.8k 1.6×	541 0.2×	1.1k 1.3×	784 1.2×	141	9.8k
Henry N. Higgs United States	52	6.3k 0.8×	6.3k 2.0×	850 0.3×	1.4k 1.7×	353 0.5×	104	11.6k
W. James Nelson United States	61	10.6k 1.4×	7.6k 2.5×	1.2k 0.4×	1.1k 1.2×	1.0k 1.5×	127	15.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rajat Rohatgi

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Li, Qianru, et al.. (2025). Structural basis of regulated N-glycosylation at the secretory translocon. Nature. 649(8097). 777–784.

Ma, Mengxiao, Ramin Dubey, Ganesh V. Pusapati, et al.. (2024). Regulated N-glycosylation controls chaperone function and receptor trafficking. Science. 386(6722). 667–672. 10 indexed citations

Benchabane, Hassina, Kai Yuan, Andres M. Lebensohn, et al.. (2023). The USP46 deubiquitylase complex increases Wingless/Wnt signaling strength by stabilizing Arrow/LRP6. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6174–6174. 4 indexed citations

Ansell, T. Bertie, Robin A. Corey, Maia Kinnebrew, et al.. (2023). The energetics and ion coupling of cholesterol transport through Patched1. Science Advances. 9(34). eadh1609–eadh1609. 3 indexed citations

Kinnebrew, Maia, Rachel E. Woolley, T. Bertie Ansell, et al.. (2022). Patched 1 regulates Smoothened by controlling sterol binding to its extracellular cysteine-rich domain. Science Advances. 8(22). eabm5563–eabm5563. 31 indexed citations

Schmidt, Hermann Broder, Zane A. Jaafar, Peter K. Jackson, et al.. (2022). Oxaliplatin disrupts nucleolar function through biophysical disintegration. Cell Reports. 41(6). 111629–111629. 33 indexed citations

Lebensohn, Andres M., J. Fernando Bazán, & Rajat Rohatgi. (2022). Receptor control by membrane-tethered ubiquitin ligases in development and tissue homeostasis. Current topics in developmental biology. 150. 25–89. 10 indexed citations

Kong, Jennifer H., Ganesh V. Pusapati, F. Hernán Espinoza, et al.. (2021). Gene-teratogen interactions influence the penetrance of birth defects by altering Hedgehog signaling strength. Development. 148(19). 8 indexed citations

Conicella, Alexander E., Gregory L. Dignon, Gül H. Zerze, et al.. (2020). TDP-43 α-helical structure tunes liquid–liquid phase separation and function. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(11). 5883–5894. 254 indexed citations breakdown →

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Abdel‐Khalik, Jonas, Tom Hearn, Peter J. Crick, et al.. (2020). Bile acid biosynthesis in Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome bypassing cholesterol: Potential importance of pathway intermediates. The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 206. 105794–105794. 12 indexed citations

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Pusapati, Ganesh V., Chun-Yu Lin, Nathan C. Shaner, et al.. (2018). Spatiotemporal manipulation of ciliary glutamylation reveals its roles in intraciliary trafficking and Hedgehog signaling. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1732–1732. 55 indexed citations

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Phua, Siew Cheng, Shuhei Chiba, Masako Suzuki, et al.. (2017). Dynamic Remodeling of Membrane Composition Drives Cell Cycle through Primary Cilia Excision. Cell. 168(1-2). 264–279.e15. 260 indexed citations

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Pusapati, Ganesh V., Jennifer H. Kong, Bhaven B. Patel, et al.. (2017). CRISPR Screens Uncover Genes that Regulate Target Cell Sensitivity to the Morphogen Sonic Hedgehog. Developmental Cell. 44(1). 113–129.e8. 95 indexed citations

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Dubey, Ramin, Andres M. Lebensohn, Caleb Marceau, et al.. (2016). Chromatin-Remodeling Complex SWI/SNF Controls Multidrug Resistance by Transcriptionally Regulating the Drug Efflux Pump ABCB1. Cancer Research. 76(19). 5810–5821. 30 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Hermann Broder & Rajat Rohatgi. (2016). In Vivo Formation of Vacuolated Multi-phase Compartments Lacking Membranes. Cell Reports. 16(5). 1228–1236. 137 indexed citations

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Marada, Suresh, Gemma Navarro, Daniel P. Stewart, et al.. (2015). Functional Divergence in the Role of N-Linked Glycosylation in Smoothened Signaling. PLoS Genetics. 11(8). e1005473–e1005473. 39 indexed citations

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Guerrero, Isabel & Rajat Rohatgi. (2014). Frontiers in hedgehog signal transduction. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology. 33. 50–51. 1 indexed citations

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Lin, Yu‐Chun, Paweł Niewiadomski, Benjamin Lin, et al.. (2013). Chemically inducible diffusion trap at cilia reveals molecular sieve–like barrier. Nature Chemical Biology. 9(7). 437–443. 107 indexed citations

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Dorn, Karolin V., Casey E. Hughes, & Rajat Rohatgi. (2012). A Smoothened-Evc2 Complex Transduces the Hedgehog Signal at Primary Cilia. Developmental Cell. 23(4). 823–835. 136 indexed citations

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Rohatgi, Rajat, H. A. Schwettman, & T. I. Smith. (1987). A Compact Energy Recovered FEL for Biomedical and Material Science Applications. 230. 2 indexed citations

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